Circle of Martin Schongauer (1430-1491)

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Circle of Martin Schongauer (1430-1491)

The Virgin and Child with two music-making Angels in a rose garden

on panel

28½ x 22½in. (72.4 x 57cm.)

Provenance

Alfred Bell (+), principal of Clayton Bell, stained glass manufacturers, Bayford House, Hampstead; Christie's, 19 May 1896, lot 101, as Van Eyck School (#4-5-0 to Larkworthy)
F. C. G. Larkworthy, father of the son-in-law of the above, thence by descent

Lot Essay

The pose of the Virgin and Child was inspired by a lost work by Rogier van der Weyden known from many derivations, for instance those by the Master of the Banderoles (M. J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, II, 1967, pl.124) and the Master of the Magdalen Legend (idem, XII, 1975, pl.5)

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